12-11-2009, 04:56 PM
As it stands now, it is not gapped anywhere - just one single electric block. That's fine since he's only getting one locomotive.
Gapping & blocking the track may eventually happen. When that does, one train shoud be able to circle the main using the inner passing track, while the other sorts cars in the 'yard'. It may be worth adding a couple more spurs at that time to balance out the cars in the yard with spots on sidings, but that's still a long ways ahead. We'll see where he wants to go with it, what his interests are. At least with this setup he can try out some switching.
The two yard tracks are opposite facing the two spurs, so a runaround is necessary depending on what direction the train is running. Planning-wise, an actual runaround isn't necessary as long as there's a loop (essentially a runaround without turnouts). But for the reasons mentioned above, I figured it'd just be easier to build one into the plan.
Galen
Gapping & blocking the track may eventually happen. When that does, one train shoud be able to circle the main using the inner passing track, while the other sorts cars in the 'yard'. It may be worth adding a couple more spurs at that time to balance out the cars in the yard with spots on sidings, but that's still a long ways ahead. We'll see where he wants to go with it, what his interests are. At least with this setup he can try out some switching.
The two yard tracks are opposite facing the two spurs, so a runaround is necessary depending on what direction the train is running. Planning-wise, an actual runaround isn't necessary as long as there's a loop (essentially a runaround without turnouts). But for the reasons mentioned above, I figured it'd just be easier to build one into the plan.
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!